Her work has been translated into six languages. Her other books include Broken Rooms (2014), and The Family Tooth (2015). Avery won the American Library Association Stonewall Book Award for The Teahouse Fire (2006) and The Last Nude (2012). Avery published two novels, a memoir and a book of poetry. Her first book, The Smoke Week (2003), is Avery’s personal account of the attacks on 9/11 and their aftermath.
She settled in New York in 1997, where in 1999 she met her partner of twenty years, Sharon Marcus.Īvery taught creative writing at Columbia University in New York, NY, and previously served as a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She spent the next few years in San Francisco working for queer youth organizations and earning an MFA in Writing from Goddard College’s low residency program.
Interested in the overlap between theater, anthropology, and religion, Avery pursued an independent major in Performance Studies at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, graduating in 1993. She legally changed her name to Ellis Avery when she was 18. She attended the Columbus School for Girls until the age of eleven, when her family moved to Princeton, New Jersey. Born Elizabeth Atwood on October 25, 1972, Ellis Avery was raised in Columbus, Ohio.
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